Haddon and Ross both mention cases of
rupture of the vagina in coitus; and Martin reports a similar
case resulting in a young girl's death. Spaeth speaks of a woman
of thirty-one who, a few days after marriage, felt violent pain
in coitus, and four days later she noticed that fecal matter
escaped from the vagina during stool. Examination showed that the
columns of the posterior wall were torn from their attachment,
and that there was a rectovaginal fistula admitting the little
finger. Hofmokl cites an instance in which a powerful young man,
in coitus with a widow of fifty-eight, caused a tear of her
fornix, followed by violent hemorrhage. In another case by the
same author, coitus in a sitting posture produced a rupture of
the posterior fornix, involving the peritoneum; although the
patient lost much blood, she finally recovered. In a third
instance, a young girl, whose lover had violent connection with
her while she was in an exaggerated lithotomy position, suffered
a large tear of the right vaginal wall. Hofmokl also describes
the case of a young girl with an undeveloped vagina, absence of
the uterus and adnexa, who during a forcible and unsuccessful
attempt at coitus, had her left labium majus torn from the
vaginal wall.
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